Whats the sickest you have ever been

[Reschke]

Bronchitis and the flu all wrapped up at once when I was a little fella; I was about 8 and spent 2 weeks in the O2 tent and one week of that with the intestinal flu...

[AHTbolt]

We all feel for and celebrate those who have survived life threatening situations. But still on the lighter side theres nothing like looking the sink and saying to your wife I think I just threw up my nuts.   

[ink]

We all feel for and celebrate those who have survived life threatening situations. But still on the lighter side theres nothing like looking the sink and saying to your wife I think I just threw up my nuts.   

 

[IrishOne]

But still on the lighter side theres nothing like looking the sink and saying to your wife I think I just threw up my nuts.   

 

[Wiley]

(when they combine Demoral and Morphine you get serious Hallucinations  

Reminds me of the second-sickest I've ever been.  When my appendix decided to inflame on me, I wound up going to the ER at about 4:30 in the morning after about 6 hours of bad symptoms.  I got into the ER at 4:30 AM, didn't get to see a doctor til about 1:00 PM due to the fact that a couple of inconsiderate guys decided that morning was the right time to crash their ultralight, and they were occupied putting them back together.

Spent the entire morning passing in and out of consciousness on a bed in the ER.

At around 1:00 PM, a doctor and a bunch of med students came around, learning about stuff.  They were pretty sure I had appendicitis, so they used me for a training dummy so they could feel how an appendicitis patient's abdominal muscles tense up when you poke the right side of their abdomen.  After the fifth student, my eyes kind of hardened up when I looked at the doctor and commented that I believed I was done putting up with that.  Did I mention they hadn't actually diagnosed me officially, so I hadn't had any painkillers yet?

So they officially diagnosed me, and gave me Demerol.  If that's the non-addictive friendly cousin of morphine, I hope I never need morphine.  That was a trip.  I could still feel the pain somewhat, but I just didn't care.

1 AM the next day, I got surgery time and they popped my appendix out.  Based on the size of the scar (5 inches) I've got compared to a lot of other appendix scars I've seen, either my doctor was Wilt Chamberlain or it was about to burst.

Wiley.

[68ZooM]

passing 4 kidney stones, OMG i thought Death would be a blessing, i wish those upon no one.

[gpwurzel]

Mumps, Measles and Meningitus all in 1 go - woke up christmas day covered in spots, big lumps in my throat and unable to bear light. Fast forward a few weeks, got home, tripped on the doorstep, fell down all 4 steps and broke my wrist.

I was only 7 at the time, life was so unfair.

Wurz

[skorpion]

kindergarten, last month of school...came to school that day, was hotter than hell, went to the bathroom and just about puked up my guts as i was standing there over the toilet puking for 30 minutes.


...came back 2 days later and found out a corndog caused it.

[VonMessa]

kindergarten, last month of school...came to school that day, was hotter than hell, went to the bathroom and just about puked up my guts as i was standing there over the toilet puking for 30 minutes.


...came back 2 days later and found out a corndog caused it.

Gonna have to learn to suppress that gag reflex if you want to make friends and survive in jail...

[ink]

passing 4 kidney stones, OMG i thought Death would be a blessing, i wish those upon no one.

I had to pass some stones it was shortly after I got out of the hospital back then...honestly compared to pancreatitus it felt like minor discomfort.

[Dragon]

Gonna have to learn to suppress that gag reflex if you want to make friends and survive in jail...

 

[M0nkey_Man]

some really messed up infection my knee from cutting it on a rusty base flap on a baseball flap...2 surgeries and 2 weeks in the hospital got it better

[ink]

Gonna have to learn to suppress that gag reflex if you want to make friends and survive in jail...

ether that, or fight at the drop of a dime....

[RTHolmes]

for typical illnesses: chicken pox at age 20.

after the first 48 hours of passing out inbetween bouts of dysentry-like symptoms I couldnt keep even water down for 2 days, and it was 6 days til I could manage solids again. I couldnt believe how badly an illness that kids shrug off with a few pock marks floored me for a full 3 weeks.

If you got kids make sure they get chicken pox, measles and mumps while they're young*. they probably wont thank you, even later, but you are doing em a big favour



* edit: although not all at the same time like wurzel

[Tac]

Lets see.. it depends on degrees of severity.


When I was 16 I remember getting a fever so high I was literally having micro-convulsions along my spine, arms and legs. Funny thing was even though I was running a high temperature and having all that I didnt feel sick at all. In fact I felt like I had all the energy in the world to get up and go play soccer for the whole day.

When 19 here in the US, in my first halloween here, I traded my kid cousin some candy for all the butterfingers he had on his bag. I LOVE butterfingers. I ate like 20 of the damn things that night.

... of course, that meant that for the next 4 days I could not crap. literally. Butterfingers had become butter-butt-plug and NOTHING would come out.

That is the most horrible sick time I've ever had. To this day I LOVE butterfingers but just SEEING or SMELLING one triggers an instant rejection response.  :_(


and finally, while not 'sick' ... my doctor prescribed I take niacin tablets to help lower my cholesterol. Problem is, taking one of those made every millimeter of my body turn cooked-shrimp red and feel like I was badly, badly sunburned for hours. When I mean everywhere I mean EVERYWHERE. Under my fingernails, my eyelids, between my buttcheeks and other places I cannot mention.